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Special article

Vol. 150 No. 4546 (2020)

COVID-19 pandemic: triage for intensive-care treatment under resource scarcity (3rd, updated version)

  • Swiss Medical Weekly
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2020.20401
Cite this as:
Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20401
Published
12.11.2020

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